Check out the latest incarnation of Destiny Online. Pop over to byond://dantom#jamesmurphy/DO2.dmb.
Not much to do at the moment though....
-James
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 Oct 15 2000, 5:02 am
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Nifty Zelda graphics.
"You see the weaponsmith. the weaponsmith is wearing: Nothing." Hehe! -AbyssDragon | |
On 10/15/00 9:02 am jmurph wrote:
Check out the latest incarnation of Destiny Online. Pop over to byond://dantom#jamesmurphy/DO2.dmb. Ah looks very interesting. And a great archway effect where the character can walk under archways and such! What approach are you using to make this work? The movement model is somewhat cumbersome -- it was caching my movements and I would end up way off where I wanted to be. I'm thinking about putting together some kind of "click to move" code snippet or library function for this sort of thing. Lastly, after several minutes, when I had wandered to the far left of the map, DreamSeeker slowed down to a crawl and stopped responding. This may be the sort of infinite loop thing that Zilal was just dealing with. | |
On 10/15/00 12:18 pm Deadron wrote:
Lastly, after several minutes, when I had wandered to the far left of the map, DreamSeeker slowed down to a crawl and stopped responding. This may be the sort of infinite loop thing that Zilal was just dealing with. That happened to me too, after I'd left the game alone for a couple minutes. And of course, my own problem was the first thing I thought of... Z | |
And a great archway effect where the character can walk under archways and such! What approach are you using to make this work?
<code>
turf {
var/layered
var/disp
New()
src.disp = image(src.layered,src)
Enter() {
view() << src.disp
return ..()
}
}
</code>The movement model is somewhat cumbersome -- it was caching my movements and I would end up way off where I wanted to be. I'm thinking about putting together some kind of "click to move" code snippet or library function for this sort of thing. Yeah, it is kinda annoying how BYOND 'stacks' commands. I think it would be less laggy if the server didn't process anything it recieved during delay time (IE if tick_lag = 10, it ignores any commands from the same user if there are less than 10 between it and the last command.) Try double clicking on a location, though. You will walk there. Lastly, after several minutes, when I had wandered to the far left of the map, DreamSeeker slowed down to a crawl and stopped responding. This may be the sort of infinite loop thing that Zilal was just dealing with. Eh? How gross. Sounds like an infinite loop somewhere. Hrm..... -James | |
On 10/15/00 11:25 am AbyssDragon wrote:
Nifty Zelda graphics. Do you like it better than the rendered graphics I was using? Personally, I think this looks much 'cleaner' .... -James | |
On 10/15/00 2:01 pm jmurph wrote:
On 10/15/00 11:25 am AbyssDragon wrote: Not to sound rude or anything, but the other way seemed more 'original' to me. Clean is always good, though, I suppose. | |
On 10/15/00 2:00 pm jmurph wrote:
And a great archway effect where the character can walk under archways and such! What approach are you using to make this work? <code>turf {var/layeredvar/dispNew()src.disp = image(src.layered,src)Enter() {view() << src.dispreturn ..()}}Interesting...I'd venture a guess here that this might end up stacking copies of the image up ad infinitum... | |
On 10/15/00 9:02 am jmurph wrote:
Check out the latest incarnation of Destiny Online. Wow! I just checked it out. The artwork is beautiful. I like the new graphics even better than the old ones, and I was a big fan of those. Have you considered using movement-states for your walking motions? Right now it looks like the guys are always animating. If you made the current walking icons into movement-states they would only do that while in motion. Of course, the current definition of "in motion" is kind of lousy (the term "crippled gerbils" has been used), so you can make your own judgement. This could really benefit from that feature Julio brought up a while back that would allow you to specify a move_lag so that guys would move continuously rather than stop-go-stop-go-... It would also improve the aforementioned movement state animations. Mainly, though, it would give the impression of a much quicker, smoother movement since everything would be continuous. Are you hard-coding in a movement delay right now, or is the speed just due to lag? (the easy way to tell: does it run at roughly the same speed online as it does locally?) I'd like to speed up some of these games; I'm hoping it is do-able. Really nice work, though. We'll have to try this out in a GoB sometime in the near future! | |
Looks great! Just yesterday I was wondering if that project had dropped off the face of the Earth. :) Glad to see it's moving along.